Grammars, Inference, Parsing and Transduction

摘要: At the very beginning of my own work on TTS synthesis, I was looking for a short but accurate introduction to grammars, parsers, and lexicons; an in which related terminology would be comprehensively explained, with not too many details, being cursory either; goals and, better still, coverage limits grammar models efficiency parsers could perceived.1 now know that this research bound fail, even though grammars are often based simple facts, their implications particularly hard appreciate. What is more, linguistic theories insist peculiarities, rather than common properties. thus grasped pieces information throughout painfully tried form coherent view. It not, however, until read inescapable (Gazdar Mellish, 1989), didactic (Charniak, 1993) (Winograd, 1983), complete (Sabah, rigorous (Miclet, 1984) brilliant (and concise) (Gibbon, 1991), after had attended comprehensive natural language processing courses Prof. Martin Kay at ELSNET summer school prosody (University College London, began have deeper insights intricate area. The following pages merely concise presentation some basic facts extracted from these references. does claim nor truly accurate, it inevitably oversimplifies aspects grammars.